
Worcestershire sauce (UK IPA: /ˈwʊstəʃə(r)/, USA IPA: /ˈwʊstəʃɪə(r)/) is a widely used fermented liquid condiment first made at 68 Broad Street, Worcester by Messers Lea & Perrins at some point in the 1830s. It was made commercially in 1837, and remains the only Worcestershire Sauce to still be made in the county. In 1930 the business was sold to HP Foods and was subsequently acquired by the HJ Heinz company when they acquired that business from Groupe Danone in 2005.The product is made and bottled in the Midlands Road factory in Worcester, which has been the home of Lea & Perrins since 16th October 1897.Originally manufactured by Lea & Perrins., in Midland Road, Worcester, England. The H. J. Heinz Company, who now manufactures "Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce", lists the following ingredients on the label: malt vinegar (from barley), spirit vinegar, molasses, sugar, salt, anchovies, tamarind extract, onions, garlic, spices (including cloves), and flavouring. It is a flavouring used in many dishes, both cooked and uncooked, and particularly with beef. It is an important ingredient in Caesar salad and in a Bloody Mary. Lea & Perrins supplies it in concentrate form to be bottled abroad.Worcestershire sauce is generically referred to as Worcester sauce (IPA: /ˈwʊstə(ɹ)/), or simply as Wooster sauce.Though a fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, "Worcestershire sauce" is one of the many legacies of British contact with India. While some sources trace comparable fermented anchovy sauces in Europe to the 17th century, this one became popular in the 1830s.